Game Name: | Tangerine Bowl |
Date Game Played: | December 12 |
Year Game Played: | 1964 |
Football Season: | 1964 |
Football Division: | NCAA College Division |
Home School: | East Carolina College |
Home Name Short: | East Carolina |
Home Nickname: | Pirates |
Home Record: | 8–1 |
Home Conference: | Independent |
Home 1Q: | 0 |
Home 2Q: | 0 |
Home 3Q: | 6 |
Home 4Q: | 8 |
Mvp: | TB Bill Cline (East Carolina) |
Visitor School: | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Visitor Name Short: | UMass |
Visitor Nickname: | Redmen |
Visitor Record: | 8–1 |
Visitor 1Q: | 0 |
Visitor 2Q: | 7 |
Visitor 3Q: | 6 |
Visitor 4Q: | 0 |
Type: | bg |
Attendance: | 8,000 |
Game Link: | Citrus Bowl (game) |
The 1964 Tangerine Bowl was an American college football bowl game between the East Carolina Pirates and the UMass Redmen, played in Orlando, Florida.[1] [2]
From 1964 through 1967, the Tangerine Bowl was one of four postseason games in the NCAA College Division, the Atlantic regional final.[1] The 1964 game had the Redmen of the Yankee Conference and the independent Pirates.
The other three regional finals in the College Division were the Pecan, Grantland Rice, and Camellia bowls, also played on December 12.[3]
The game ultimately was decided by special teams. The Redmen scored twice on Jerry Whelchel touchdown passes. However, on the second extra point, Whelchel's kick went wide, and the lead was 13–0. The Pirates then came up with a touchdown on a George Richardson run to narrow the lead. But when they tried to make the deficit smaller, the 2-point conversion attempt failed, leaving it at 13–6. In the fourth quarter, the Pirates went on a 90-yard drive, culminating in a 9-yard run by tailback Bill Cline. Rather than going for the tie, they went for the win; the 2-point conversion succeeded on a pass from Cline to Dave Bumgarner, giving the Pirates the lead and ultimately the win.[1] [2] [4] Cline was named the game's MVP.[1]
East Carolina also played in the 1965 Tangerine Bowl and then moved to the University Division in 1966, and have since played in multiple bowl games at the Division I (now FBS) level. Massachusetts played in the Boardwalk Bowl in 1972; the team moved to the new Division I-AA (now FCS) in 1978, and then to FBS in 2012.
Statistics | Massachusetts | East Carolina |
---|---|---|
First Downs | 6 | 8 |
Yards Rushing | 135 | 153 |
Yards Passing | 153 | 192 |
Total Yards | 288 | 345 |
Interceptions | 2 | 1 |
Some websites state Massachusetts quarterback Jerry Whelchel was the game's MVP,[5] however contemporary newspaper accounts only recognize Cline.[1] [6] The UMass website states Whelchel was his team's MVP ("UMass' MVP") for the game.[7]